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AM Scanner Traffic — 6.18.09

  • 11:54 a.m. Wrong-way driver in black p/u e/b in w/b lanes of I90 @ M/P 11 (4th Street).
  • 11:39 a.m. Black pitbull keeps running onto county airport property, creating a hazard.
  • 10:52 a.m. Brown-and-white collie mix is loose in the median @ H95 & Wyoming.
  • 10:50 a.m. EMTs are performing CPR on a 63YO diabetic on Stagecoach/Post Falls who went into seizure and is not breathing.
  • 10:33 a.m. R/P reports that three boaters are sitting on a capsized boat -- or log -- in the middle of Hauser Lake. No other boats are on the lake. Marine deputies are en route. Update (10:55 a.m.): Witness tells officers that there is no SOS situation. 3 young boys pushed a log a half mile out into lake. Update 2 (11:11 a.m.): Rescuers have found the log but not the boys. They're searching for them along the shoreline. Update 3 (11:40 a.m.): Boys found. Everything is OK.
  • 10:24 a.m. Bridget is looking for her black Newfoundland on Miller/Athol.
  • 9:47 a.m. An aggressive pitbull has been running loose in and around a Spirit Lake park for four days.
  • 9:35 a.m. Man on Kelly Rae Drive/Hayden is threatening to kill himself by taking pills.
  • 8:16 a.m. A moose may be involved in a two-car crash on H95, four miles north of the Bonner Mall/Ponderay. Unknown injuries.
  • 8:45 a.m. A man in a 1975 pickup is securing his load @ M/P 11 (4th Street/CdA) after dropping wood all over the interstate.


D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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